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idea: get tags/recommended tags from lists

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:51:01 -0000

Two connected ideas that'd be useful to me:

1) Recommended tag suggestions from lists. (or even groups)
I've added tags to my lists, but i'm not quite sure what use they have. But it seems to me that if i'm adding an item to a list, and that list has tags, then those might be suitable for items in that list.
I'd imagine that when you select a list from the dropdown it'd pop up another list of recommended tags, based on that list's tags. *

2) Automatically add list tags to bookmarks.
Maybe more extreme, but it'd be fine for me. If i add an item to a list then i'd be quite happy if ALL the tags from that list were automatically added to that bookmark.

I tend to find that a lot of my bookmarks fall into 3 or 4 distinct categories, and i'm adding the same 7 or 8 tags to each bookmark in a category. Even with autocomplete it seems a little inefficient. Being able to use lists to quickly add common groups of tags would be useful.

*maybe with a "add all list tags" option too.
post by soulgrind on 2008-09-16

Turn off "recommended tags"

Tue, 20 May 2008 02:30:44 -0000

recommended |tags |turnoff | post by romatrast on 2008-05-20

Is there a way to turn off the "recommended tags" function in the bookmark window? They take forever to load and are totally useless 90% of the time.
post by romatrast on 2008-05-20

"recommended tags" is nice, "recent tags" would be too

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:04:43 -0000

recommended |tagging | post by davido on 2008-04-20

I like the "recommended tags" suggestions. How about a "recent tags" option below it, which would include whatever I've just tagged another page?

This would help with consistency, where several tags ought to be the same between pages bookmarked one after another, but maybe just one tag changes.
post by davido on 2008-04-20
good idea.
most used tags might be nice too.
and if you select a list then maybe "most used list tags?"

I hope they can improved the recommended tags a bit though. Recently I've been getting really weird ones.
post by soulgrind on 2008-04-20
That's a good idea. We will evaluate it.
post by joel on 2008-04-24

"recommended tag" = useless

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:04:10 -0000

recommended |tags | post by johnlknight on 2008-04-12

I am finding that the recommended tags are virtually useless.

I, of course, have no idea how Diigo comes up with the recommended tags, but I have found they are almost always completely irrelevant.

would it be possible to change the system, so that the words of the title of the webpage are used to generate the tags, while also leaving out articles (a, the), prepositions (in at...etc), and conjunctions (of, but, etc). In other words, the diigo recommended tags should just be the nouns and verbs of the web page title.

I know this is not perfect, but I think it would be a pretty good start to a much more intuitive recommended tag system.

Of course, this is all in addition to tags that the Diigo community has already added. In my case, this is rarely an option as most of the stuff I bookmark is a first time for diigo.
post by johnlknight on 2008-04-12
Thanks for you suggestion. The current tag recommendation system includes some key words from the title, supplemented by other user input. We realize the result may not be perfect some times. We will improve it further.
post by joel on 2008-04-13
I agree on the suggested tags, they are fairly useless, and seem to miss even the most obvious keywords

Foe example, on this page:

Feature: Analyze Your Email Usage with Mail Trends
http://lifehacker.com/379328/analyze-your-email-usage-with-mail-trends

only one keyword is suggested, and that is 'analyze', despite 'Email' and 'mail' both being in the title, and being for more plausible (at least they are both nouns).

I have a suggestion, which is to ask would it be possible to incorporate the tags suggested by delicious, as they are fairly comprehensive and useful. E.g. for the above page, the tages are as follows:

article articles communications data email gmail google hacks howto lifehacker lifehacks linux mail programming python statistics tips toread trends visualization

This set of options should cover most possibilities. Also, I do think the suggested tags perform a fairly useful function, in that the keep the tags consistent, both for each user, and globally, making it easier to find items and users of interest. Whereas if they bookmark a page on cars, different poeople could tag it as car, cars, automobile, and so on.
post by brendan on 2008-04-15
Also, another advantage of strengthening to suggested tags; it eliminates typos in tagging, which either haave to be cleaned up later, or means that the tags are effectively useless.
post by brendan on 2008-04-15
I agree, the recommended tags don't help much when we are bookmarking.

I think there are 2 main sources for real and useful tags:
1. the metas "description" and "keywords" from the page we are tagging;
2. tags used by other users, if the URL was already bookmarked by anyone;

I guess the second is already used by other social bookmarking systems similar to Diigo;
Strangely the first one is only used by one of this sites that I know, and I know some.
Maybe it is technically difficult or the cost is significant, but I think the only thing involved is to get the page addressed by the URL and parse the metas "description" and "keywords" eliminating the words with less or no semantic interest, just like John Knight had explained .
This matter would be a great difference to other similar sites, I bet :)
post by jdrsantos on 2008-04-15